Most people, myself included, know Janice Galloway as a writer. An award winning writer at that. But Galloway likes surprises, and she is full of them.
The Scottish author won the 1990 MIND Book of the Year Award for her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing,, also shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. In 1994, her novel Foreign Parts won the McVities Prize. Recently, she collaborated with composer Sally Beamish to produce the libretto for a full-length opera, Monster, based on the life of Mary Shelley. When I ask her how she made the step from writing to music, I soon realise it was actually the other way round.
